Acting Quotes · Page 256

I was bored one day, so my dad took me to this acting school. I liked it more than having fun -…

— Millie Bobby Brown

I've always maintained that there's no such thing as period acting, I think that's a class thing. I don't believe that people…

— Denis Lawson

My entry into films was forced, and I always had an affinity towards academics. Having said that, it is the artiste within…

— Padmapriya Janakiraman

If you get a chance to act in a room that somebody else has paid rent for, then you're given a free…

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

I learned much more about acting from philosophy courses, psychology courses, history and anthropology than I ever learned in acting class.

— Tim Robbins

I plan to go to university - but for sure, acting is what I want to do. It's a hard business, but…

— Natasha Calis

I constantly ask why one of my kids has the tantrums that he does, and it's not because he sees videos of…

— Cedric Bixler-Zavala

I didn't know anything about acting at all. I was completely green. I got into it to meet people, to try and…

— Courtney B. Vance

I loved doing 'Teachers.' I don't know if it's set me on a road, but it certainly got me out of financial…

— Raquel Cassidy

Actors spend most of their time out of work, so I actually spend more time making furniture. The thing about furniture that's…

— Michael Schoeffling

Acting came easy to me, I think. There's something about it that's a lot easier for me in the sense that you're…

— Evan Ross

Every time I meet an ambassador, I bring to the a table a list of NGOs I think are acting against Israel,…

— Ayelet Shaked

Growing up on Mad Men with so many incredible actors and then going on to other things with amazing people, I never…

— Kiernan Shipka

All rappers predominantly sound the same and want you to think their meanest person in the world, and that they're all gangster…

— Nicki Minaj

I didn't know what acting school was, so I went onto the computer and typed 'acting school.' I found one in Berlin,…

— Vicky Krieps

What it feels like is that we want women to conform to a certain image. Which is interesting, insofar as acting is…

— Emma D'Arcy

Sometimes 'great acting' is just showing off - chewing up scenery and dialogue and other actors - the equivalent of a theatrical…

— Denis Leary

I imagine that, for most people, acting isn't something they think is a viable option, whereas for me, it was the most…

— Johnny Flynn

I like producing, but I don't love it. I love acting. I got into producing because I had a bad time in…

— Trudie Styler

I've spent the last year going on auditions, acting, and working hard. There will always be my celebrity, but my work speaks…

— Mary-Kate Olsen

I think some people in their 20s really get it, that acting is about creativity and the work. They get their maturity…

— Jane Badler

I've never felt that acting was my vocation - never had that tortured thing. I love acting, but it doesn't feed my…

— James Nesbitt

My take is that acting is acting. A performance is a performance. With performance capture, if you don't get the performance on…

— Andy Serkis

The Kapoor surname has legend, a passion for acting, respect and love attached to it. And I am very proud of that.

— Karisma Kapoor

For lack of any clearer idea, I just started acting one day. It had been in the back of my head for…

— Jeffrey Wright

I've done one movie. And it's not a movie I want to stand on as far as acting ability goes. I mean,…

— Megan Fox

Anything that opens you up emotionally is going to impact your acting. Parenthood, becoming a mom, certainly does that.

— Keri Russell

Acting is in my family. My cousins, my sister, and I always say it's a legacy that should be kept alive. In…

— Hailey Baldwin

On the whole, Flora liked it better when they were silent, though it did rather give her the feeling that she was…

— Stella Gibbons

The thing I adore about acting is that it's not me: you get to experience all these emotions, but essentially it's not…

— Jessica Brown Findlay

When you have great acting partners, you hope that your reaction to them is propels you deeper into your own character.

— Giancarlo Esposito

When you do improv, you're everything. You're a performer, writer, and director, because you're moving the scene in the direction you want…

— Rob Reiner

I went to a very academic school that actually - when I got to the point of wanting to pursue acting, they…

— Freema Agyeman

I wouldn't do anything else [besides acting], for sure. If I did, it would be music or some other pursuit in this…

— Dermot Mulroney

I am looking at acting in a different way now. I always looked at it as equity to build the other things…

— Kubra Sait

Acting is a weird profession. It's very disquieting, and at the time it just made me so confused. It's only when you…

— Jesse Eisenberg

You get to keep acting on the feelings you had just moments before. You don't have to psych yourself up for the…

— Taissa Farmiga

The price of apparent happiness and enjoyment is the neglect of the spontaneous active energies of the acting members.

— Wilhelm von Humboldt

The wonderful thing about acting is you move along with your decade. The older you get, the more interesting the parts you…

— Francesca Annis

I was always interested in acting and writing, and I honestly thought I'd make my name as a scriptwriter one day. But…

— Angela Bowie